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rjm900
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

SAP BW Connector

Hi everyone,   Hoping you can help here. I'm trying to get a connection through to SAP BW from PowerBI using the in-built conector. I've succesfully managed to do this previously, using an older ve...
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JuandreR
Advocate I
9 years ago
Hi rjm900, Have you downloaded and installed the latest SAP NW RFC dll's ? I found this same issue previously and when I installed the latest SAP NW RFC dll's, it fixed the issue for me.
  • JuandreR's avatar
    JuandreR
    Advocate I
    9 years ago
    For anyone wondering how to get the SAP NW RFC working in Power BI so you can connect to a SAP BW Datasource, download the SAP NW RFC files from the SAP Website (DLL + LIB files). Extract the downloaded file and copy the contents into the BIN folder located inside your Power BI installation directory.
    • PatriciaH's avatar
      PatriciaH
      New Member
      9 years ago

      Hi JuandreR,

       

      Is there anyway to know which version of Netweaver you need? Or is it safe to think you need the latest Netweaver (7.5) if you have the latest update of PowerBI (march 2017) installed?

       

      Thanks for any reply.

       

      • duncangibb's avatar
        duncangibb
        New Member
        9 years ago

        Id appraciate any help on this too.  I had the same issue, I downloaded all the *.dll and still no luck.  I'm advised by colegues that after navigating "Get Data > Sap Business Warehouse Server" they see a prompt to configure IP address etc.  I never see this and despite searching the app I have not found a place to enter this.  Any clues?

    • Priyab's avatar
      Priyab
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Hello JuandreR,

       

      Can you share a link to the SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK. I am having similar issue. Only that Power BI wont let me pass the initial screen saying i need to install these above files.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Hi,

       

      I am getting the following error after downloading the nwrfcsdk.zip file and putting the contents of the file in Bin folder. Can anyone who has resolved this issue help ?

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        7 years ago

        Hi,

        I have fixed this. You need SAP.net connector installed in your GAC library. The SAP .net connector is available in SAP library. Once you start installing it will prompt for where to install, select the second option i.e. Install in GAC.

        Also make sure you get the correct version of SAP. net connector. If you have 32 bit version of Power Bi desktop, you need 32 bit SAp.net connector else for 64 bit power Bi version, you need 64 bit >net connector.

        Also I havent tried, but i believe these connectors will be available in GAC if you are in a windows 10 machine, so you can try that option too.

        Thanks,
        ankku